Nevada is the FIRST Racially Diverse state this Primary Season

[bluewater]

Its electorate is less than 50% white.



https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/01/31/just-how-demographically-skewed-are-the-early-democratic-primary-states/

Even though it is a caucus state, it will be informative to see which candidates do well with minority voters in Nevada.

[SCantiGOP]

1. Misleading

The chart is correct, but it gives state population, not projected Dem Primary or caucus vote.
In SC, black voters make up about 27% of the population, but they will be almost 2/3 of the primary vote on Feb 29.

[bluewater]

2. That makes the Nevada caucus even MORE racially diverse.

Thanks for making that point.

Same thing for SC, of course.



In any case, there will be MANY more minority voters taking part in Nevada than in either Iowa or New Hampshire.

It will be enlightening to see how all the candidates do with those voters.

[squirecam]

3. Well

Iowa and NH were mostly white voters. SC will be mostly AA voters.

Nevada will be the most diverse electorate, having the mixture.

[bluewater]

7. Nevada definitely will have tons of Minority Voters participating. More than Iowa and NH.

There is now to way to discount that.

The results will be interesting to see.

[matt819]

4. Statistically speaking. . .

There are any number of ways to analyze stats.

Racial diversity, economic diversity, population mobility, education. Books have been written.

Yes, I know, you're looking at racial diversity, and that's fine, as far as it goes. But there are other factors that don't show up in statistics.

As someone posted, it doesn't identify the number of non-white registered Democrats. It doesn't measure political participation. Also, white is divided into non-Hispanic white and Hispanic white. (That said, I don't know how many/most Hispanic people characterize themselves, so those numbers may be suspect in some ways. It's too easy to either comment with broad generalizations or get down into the weeds. Neither is particularly productive. To say nothing of cherry-picking stats to make an argument.

BTW, I came across this USG site: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219. That's the total for the US. Enter the state for more localized info. Useful, I think, but, again, only as far as it goes.

[bluewater]

5. um, there is a catagory for the Latino/Hispanic population in the Brookings Insitute data.

But, if anyone wants to try and downplay Nevada's overwhelmingly obvious diversity, well, I say let them have at it. lol

That won't change the facts on the ground.

[squirecam]

6. Early voting is throughout next week!

https://nvdems.com/2020-caucus/